Giovanni beccaro



Patented Aug. 9, |898.

D E M l J 0 H N (Application med Hay 12, 1897.)

G. BECCABU.

(No Modal.)

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srncirjlcarrort forming part of Letters; Patent No, 608,824, datednugust e, 189e.,

Application lcd May l1.2, 1897.A Serial No. 636,166.

(No modclJl- Patented in ItalyApril 29, 1891, No. 29,641 LVIII,- 7G; in

Germany October 9,1894,N0. 82,376; in France March 11, T1895, No. 245,707, and in Spain April l, 1896, No. 17,282.

To @ZZ einem it meti/concern,.-

13e it known that I, GIOVANNI Bucci/ino, a subjcctofthe King of-Italy,l and a resident of, Acqui, Province of Alessandria, Italy, 'have invented anImprovedtDemijohn, (for which I have obtained' Letterslatent in Italy, No.

29,041, datedApril 729,11891; in France, No'.A

245,707, dated March 11, 1895; in Germany, No. 82,370, dated October 9, 1894, and Vin Spain, No. 17,232, dated April 1, 1895,) of which the following is a specification.

At the present time covered demijohns present the objection that their bottoms of wicker break very easily and become detached from the sides, and consequently the' demi j ohn soon loses its' `prin`cipaladvantageethat is to say, easeand safety of transportation.; The demijohnformng `the subject of my present invention removes thisobjectioh. l

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a skcletonview to illustrate the construction of the covering! Fig."2 shows" in' face view, partly broken away and in section, the bot# tom piece. Fig.`3 is a perspective view of the covered demijohn. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the lower part, drawn to a larger scale. Fig. 5 is a plan, partly in section. Fig. 6 is a perspective view, drawn to a smaller scale, showing the upper part of the cover partly lifted off. Fig.` 7 is a perspectiveview of a modification. Fig. S is a perspective View of another modification. Figs. 9 and 10 are en` larged viewsof details. A

The base Aofthe coveris formed, Figs. 1- to 4, of two' thin" disks of Vwood superposed and secured "together, eitherby Paris nails or by wood-screws. The two disks are arranged with their grains running at right angles to eachother, and the margin is rounded in order to facilitate the carryin'gof the demijohn in the arms or upon the shoulder.

The side B of the covering is of wicker and should be secured to the wooden bottom before being woven, and for that purpose the wooden bottom is pierced around its margin with a certain number of holes uniformly distributed; ln- Figs. 1 and 2 there areshown twenty; but their'nunlber may be suitably varied. -Thc wicker reeds b b, of suitable thickness, are introduced by force into the said holes from below upward and with ltheir greatest diameter below, after which they are cut level with the lower face of the said wooden bottom..

j For covered demijohns, and especially for the largest sizes, it is often desirable to have a cock at the bottom for drawing olf the wineor any other liquid contained therein in order to avoid the necessity of having to iirst tilt the demijohn over and even turn it upside down, and consequently disturb the liquid. l

I have therefore adapted to my demijohn a cock b at the bottom, which can be inclosed and hidden in the interior of the covering B in order to be able to still transport the demijohn containing any liquid by any suitable means of transportation with the same safety as a deinijohn Without a cock. i The Vconstruction by which this object is attained is shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 9, and may be described as follows: In the bottom of the glass vdemijohn D there isa circular `opening t', either made directly in the glass at `the moment of molding the demijohn or afterward by means of a piercing-machine with a diamond point. A metallic connection ltgwith a shoulder at the upper inner end, is easilyintroduced into the said hole t' by manipulating it through the neck of the bottle by means of a long pair` of nippers or a wooden stick adapted to hold the extremity ofthe connectionvhich may be square or rectangular. A rubber washerj, secured rst on theconnecvtion against the shoulder, makes afirln joint nection is fixed andsolidly secured'against rubber washer j and a nut n, threaded on the connection itself, Fig. 4. A rubber tube g of suitable length and curved in a quarter of a circle, Figs. 4 and 5, lconnectsV the said pipe to the metallic conduit e, furnished with a cock b at its front outer extremity. At its inner end this pipe e has a prismatic stem inclosed by a spiral spring d. On the bottom A is fixed a piece of wood with alongltudinal groove for the cock-pipe e, and it has at the rear a metallic corner fr, whose vertical face is perforated and serves to guide the stem of the cockspipe e at the same time that it servos for the point of bearing of the spiral spring at the interior of thedemijohn, and the con- IOO d. This last tends to push outward the slid-V ing pipe e, so that the cock o', which rests against the door s, tends to become free. As soon as the door is opened the cock presents itselfautomatically outside. It can easily be returned to the interior by a slight pressure of the hand, and it can be maintained there by fastening the door with a peg p, Fig. 9, of which the head is formed with a ring to operate it, and its lower end is perforated with a hole for a small padlock in ordinary cases or for a leaden seal in case of transportation. The opening e for the door should be made in the wicker without cutting any of the wicker reeds and should be of a size suitable for the introduction of the apparatus. A diaphragm h, allowing only the vcock te pass, hides and protects the interior automatic devices.

The demi john, clothed on its outside with wicker on the flat bottom A, as described above, is suspended in the upper part of the wickerwork by two bands lof Manila cloth or any other suitable material t and t, Figs. l and 5, crossing each other andvembracing the exterior surface of the bottom of the glass demijohn. It will be seen that one of the bands t' is traversed by the tube K and that the ends or extremities of the bands are secured at the margin to the wickerware of the palmier. This new system of suspension has an advantage over that of making the glass demijohn rest on the bottom simply on a cushion formed of seaweed or other vegetable material. Such latter cushion, especially for demijohns with automatic cock, would be apt to be dislodged by the backward and forward movement of the cock, and the demijohn would no longer rest completely protected against shocks of the wooden bottom on the ground.

To prevent the handles Il, of twisted wicker reeds, from breaking by continued usage and on account of the weight which they have to bear if the dernijohn is full, I pass through the interior of the handles a metallic Wire W', of iron or copper, forming a resisting body. f

The two extremities of the metallic wire, after having passed through the wooden bottom forming the foundation of the covering,

- are bound together and united in the handle, Fig. l. With this arrangement the pull on the handles due to the lifting of the demijohn is sustained by the wooden bottom, and

the goed transportation of the wicker handles l is assured.

The ordinary covering of the upper part of the demijehn, made with a bunch of straw rolled into spirals secured around the neck of the demijohn and simply held by string, easilybecomes dislodged. Isubstitute therefor a cover E, of woven wickerrceds padded on the inside with straw, and make this cover removable, so as to be able to fix it to the lower basket, with four or more small rings l. attached to the basket and other similar ones attached to the cover, Figs. 3 and 6, the corresponding rings being united and bound together by string.

I thus obtain the following advantages: (a) The covering of the neck of the demijohn is more solid and durable and the deniijehn is more efficiently protected against blows; (h) the cover being easily lifted off and removed the demijohn can be inspected as to its interior at pleasure, and (c) if by chance the v glass gets broken it is the glass only which needs to be replaced. All the parts of the covering can be utilized again, and the substitutien of another glass does not require any special operation, being very easily and economically made by any workman. Instead. of making this upper cover of woven z wicker and padding it on the inside with a straw I may also make it so that the frame is of wicker reeds arranged on the generating-lines of the conical surface, and on. these reeds I weave a pad of straw, Fig. 3. The binding-cords for the covering may either be i made of a simple wisp of straw or of string made of two or more strands twisted in the machine.

The cover of the lower part of the demijohn may be made in the same manner as described i for the lid in place of the basket construction first described and following more closely the form of the demijohn as shown in Figs. 7 and 8. In this case the body of the covering is Q formed on the wooden disk in the manner de-= scribed for the basket, and the handles may g still be reinforced with metallic interior threads fixed to the wooden bottom. It goes without saying that the covering of the lower part can be separated from the movable upper part, as shown in Fig. 7, but connecting the woven wickerware at that point.

y To better protect the neck and to prevent 1 any withdrawal of liquid through the stopy per, I have applied a cover F, of straw, with jan iron wire f around a washer f', Fig. 10. y This cover is fixed on the neck of the demin i john with a sealed cord g.

I claim as my inventiony l. As a new article of manufacture, a demin john combined with a wickerwarc covering provided with a wooden bottom with which f the wickerware is united, the uprights of said wicker-ware bein g forced through holes in the `bottom, small end iirst, so as to cause the large end to be tightly gripped in the hole,

substantially as described.

2. A demijohn having a wickerware coveri ing, with a wooden bottom to which the wick= f: erware is united, wickerware handles united with the cover and concealing wire reinforce- Q. ments fastened te the wooden bottom, so as to cause the weight of the demij ohn to be sustained by said wires. y 3. A demijohn having a wickerware cover @ing with a wooden bottom and cross-bands l secured at the ends to the wickerware sov as to sustain the demijohn at a distance from the said bottom, substantially as described.

4. A demijohn provided with wickerware IIO IZO

covering and having a movable emptyingcock adapted to be inclosed Within, or to be projected out of, the Wicker covering.

5. A demi john provided with a Wickerware covering having an automatic emptying-cock movably secured to the bottom of the covering, and iexible means for attaching said cock to the demijohn, substantially as de scribed.

6. A. dcmijohn having awickerware covering andan emptying-cock, a doorin the Wickerware in front of said cock, and means for automatically causing said cock to protrude from the casing When the door is opened, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing Witnesses. Y

GIOVANNI BECCARO. lVitnesses:

E. V. DOBRITOVICHI, A. FERRARI. 

